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The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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Style: Modern
Pierre Soulages, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1956
Pierre Soulages, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1956

Pierre Soulages, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1956

By Pierre Soulages

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Pierre Soulages (1919–2022), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 7 (double), Juin 1956, originates f...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph
Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph

Summer : Harvest Time - Original Lithograph

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Paris, IDF

Raoul DUFY Summer : Harvest Time, 1953 Original Lithograph with stencil watercolor With printed signature in the plate On Arches vellum 28 x 38 cm (c. 11 x 15 inch) Very good condi...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII

Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII

Located in London, GB

"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor from the Istituto di Arte di Porta Romana, Florence, Italy. The professor released works of artists whom he mentored over the years. We are unsure who painted the series we acquired as several are just signed, 'Giacomo', or, left completely unsigned, yet many are clearly by the same artist. This one is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a French-style linen slip. The canvas is textural like one of the vintage maps...

Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Big Sky Majesty

Big Sky Majesty

By Mark Maggiori

Located in Draper, UT

Archival pigment print on 300 GSM cotton rag fine art matte paper. Dimensions of 27x22 in. Released in 2021 from an edition of 673.

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper

Classic Botanical Cyanotype, Handmade Using Natural Sunlight, Limited Edition
Classic Botanical Cyanotype, Handmade Using Natural Sunlight, Limited Edition

Classic Botanical Cyanotype, Handmade Using Natural Sunlight, Limited Edition

By Kind of Cyan

Located in Barcelona, ES

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Details: + Title: Vintage Pressed Flowers Nº3 + Year: 2023 + Edition Size: 20 + Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided + Measurements : 70x100 cm (28x 40 in.), a standard frame size + All cyanotype prints are made on high-quality Italian watercolor paper WHAT IS A CYANOTYPE? The cyanotype (a.k.a. sun-print) process is one of the oldest in the history of photography, dating back to the 1840's. Cyanotypes were then made famous by Anna Atkins, considered the first female photographer. Inspired by nature, we feel the need to look back at a craft that is handmade, analogue, and using an all-natural light source: the sun. Our cyanotypes are made by coating high-quality Italian watercolor paper with a light-sensitive emulsion. We then expose it in direct sunlight for several minutes using a photo negative...

Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Emulsion, Watercolor, Paper, Lithograph

Manner of Marcel Vertes Portrait of a Lady Oil Painting
Manner of Marcel Vertes Portrait of a Lady Oil Painting

Manner of Marcel Vertes Portrait of a Lady Oil Painting

Located in Surfside, FL

Mid century, manner of Marcel Vertes, 20th century painter, printmaker and illustrator.

Category

20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gamut Wave 14 - Large Original Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Tone Artwork
Gamut Wave 14 - Large Original Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Tone Artwork

Gamut Wave 14 - Large Original Modern Shiny Resin Minimalist Brown Tone Artwork

By Ricky Hunt

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist paintings are influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in his creative practice. His works evoke the many layers of his life...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Kate Moss At 16 - signed limited edition print

Kate Moss At 16 - signed limited edition print

By Jake Chessum

Located in London, GB

An Unknown Kate Moss At 16 by Jake Chessum 1990 limited edition edition size 20 only this size printed 2024 Archival pigment print numbered and signed by the artist unframed ships securely from London England Framing options available Jake Chessum British-born, New York-based photographer Jake Chessum’s portfolio includes Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams, David Bowie, Jay Z, Snoop Dogg, Coldplay, The Beastie Boys, Beck and beyond. Jake grew...

Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Hillside Pathway
Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Hillside Pathway

Vintage Mid Century Modern Swedish Landscape Oil Painting - Hillside Pathway

Located in Bristol, GB

HILLSIDE PATHWAY Size: 46 x 50 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A joyful and pleasant mid-century landscape that captures the essence of a bright day, painted in oil onto canvas. ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Elegant Figures Promenading in Park overlooking City of Florence Skyline, signed
Elegant Figures Promenading in Park overlooking City of Florence Skyline, signed

Elegant Figures Promenading in Park overlooking City of Florence Skyline, signed

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

View over Florence Italian School, signed and dated oil painting on board, framed framed: 10 x 23 inches board: 7.5 x 19.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: ve...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Lemon & Fish
Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Lemon & Fish

Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Lemon & Fish

Located in Bristol, GB

LEMON & FISH Size: 56 x 72.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A striking and brilliantly executed mid-century still life rendered in a bold, semi-abstract style, painted in oi...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil
1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil

1970 Haitian Mod Gold Painting Portrait of African American Woman Emilcar Simil

By Emilcar Similien (SIMIL)

Located in Surfside, FL

Feu de Joie 1970 hand signed and dated. Measurements: 25.75 X 25.75 Framed. Image is 23.75 X 23.75 Emilcar Similien, known as Simil was born in 1944 in St. Marc. He finished elementary school in St. Marc and high school in Port-au-Prince. From 1965 until 1971 he studied at the Academy of Beaux-Arts in Port-au-Prince, where he took courses in painting, sculpture, and art history. Simil uses his images of women only as means for displaying patterns, color, and the sparkle of gold jewelry on black skin. He paints with acrylics on Masonite of any size. His surfaces are smooth and polished. Simil delights in beauty, elegance, and grace. This is done in a silhouette style reminiscent of Kara Walker. Emilcar Simil (Similcar) is known for Acrylic painting in high colors of black skinned female figures. He is of the generation of Haitian artists that include Bernard Sejourne, Prospere Pierre-Louis, Levoy Exil, Louisiane Saint Fleurant, Henri Calixte, Paul Dieuseul, Laurent Casimir, Frantz Zephirin, Denis Smith, Philton Latortue, Philome Obin, Préfète Duffaut, Fernand Pierre, Dieudonne L Cedor. Since 1971 he has taught art history and aesthetics at the Academy of Beaux-Arts. He is also an honorary teacher at the private school Juan Vasquez. In 1974, he traveled to the United States to meet American artists and visit major museums. Simil was influenced by Art nouveau and his favorite artist, Gustav Klimt. These influences are most obvious in his paintings of women. Like Bernard Sejourne, Simil delights in beauty, elegance, and grace. But instead of concentrating on pose, he uses his images of women only as vehicles for displaying pattern, color, and the sparkle of gold jewelry on black skin. Only recognizable as females by their contours, their features are not distinguished. There is a playfulness of line that is very different from Sejourne's emphasis on monumentality. Emilcar Similien uses his images of women only as means for displaying patterns, color, and the sparkle of gold jewelry on black skin. He paints with acrylics on Masonite of any size. His surfaces are smooth and polished. Simil delights in beauty, elegance, and grace. He has been exhibiting since 1969 namely in Haiti, USA, Denmark. As Art Critic, Gerald Alexis states in his book Peintres Haitiens "well trained by masters who taught him to excel in his forms, Similien’s works also contain discrete messages” . EXHIBITIONS 1969- Academie des Beaux Arts 1970- Haitian-American Institute 1971- Salon Dante Alighieri, Amb. d'Italie, Port-au-Prince 1972- Christ, Saut-d'Eau 1973- Anderson and Hopkins Gallery, Washington, D.C. 1974- Galerie Mehu, Petion-Ville 1974- Musee d'Art Haitien, Port-au-Prince 1976- Galerie Monnin, One Man Show, Port-au-Prince 1977- Martello Museum, Key West, Florida 1978- Galleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark 1978-1979 - Haitian Art - Brooklyn Museum, New York, Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin, Kunst aus Haiti, Berlin, Germany, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana 1978- Brooklyn College, New York 1978- Musee d'Art Haitien, Port-au-Prince 1979 - Haiti, Musee d'Art (Third Generation Artists) 1979- Kunst aus Haiti, West Berlin, Germany 1980- Curacao Museum, Willemstad, Curacao 1981- Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction, New York, NY 1982- Galerie Monnin Third Generation Artists 1982- Exhibit Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco 1982- Centre de Arte Cultural, Italy 1982- International Art Expo, New York, NY 1983- Musee International d'Art Naif, Nice, France 1983- Galerie Bukowskis, Zurich, Switzerland 1984- Exhibit Metropolitan Museum of Art 1985- Galerie Bukowskis, Zurich, Switzerland 1985- Cafe de la Paix Exposition, Paris, France 1986- Three Man Show, Port-au-Prince 1988- Galerie 93, Paris, France 1989- IFA Galerie und Kontaktstelle, Bonn, Germany 1990- Exposition du Palais du Rhin, Strasbourg, France 1992- La Rencontre Des Deux Mondes Vue Par Les Peintres D'Haiti - Martinique, Seville, Rome, Paris, Nantes, Angouleme, Laval, Toulouse, Japan, Montreal, United States, Mexico Haitian art is a complex tradition, reflecting African roots with strong Indigenous, American and European aesthetic and religious influences. Many artists cluster in "schools" of painting, such as the Cap-Haïtien school, which features depictions of daily life in the city, the Jacmel School, which reflects the steep mountains and bays of that coastal town, or the Saint-Soleil School. Centre d’Art, located in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, was founded in 1944 by American watercolorist DeWitt Peters and several prominent Haitians from the intellectual and cultural circles including: Maurice Borno, Andrée Malebranche, Albert Mangonès, Lucien Price, and Georges Remponeau. Popular artists of this movement include: André Pierre, Hector Hippolyte, Castera Bazile...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic

Chouette (A.R.542)
Chouette (A.R.542)

Chouette (A.R.542)

By Pablo Picasso

Located in PARIS, FR

• Picasso began working with ceramics in 1946 at the Madoura workshop in Vallauris, marking the beginning of an important and highly productive chapter in his career. What initially ...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Ceramic

1970's French Modernist Board Games Abstract Composition Painting
1970's French Modernist Board Games Abstract Composition Painting

1970's French Modernist Board Games Abstract Composition Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Board Games by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.75 x 24 inches stamped verso provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sou...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Lithograph
Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Lithograph

Pablo Picasso - The Painter - Lithograph

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH

Pablo Picasso - Lithograph Title: Painter and his Model From the illustrated book "Regards sur Paris" (Paris: André Sauret, 1962) Pulled from the folio numbered 85 from the edition o...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Alberto Giacometti, Annette, from L'Atelier Mourlot, 1965
Alberto Giacometti, Annette, from L'Atelier Mourlot, 1965

Alberto Giacometti, Annette, from L'Atelier Mourlot, 1965

By Alberto Giacometti

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), titled Annette (Annette), from the album Les Lithographies de L'Atelier Mourlot, Paris (The Lithographs of the Mourlot Workshop, Paris), originates from the 1965 edition published by Redfern Gallery, London; printed by Mourlot Freres, November, 1965. This artwork reflects Giacometti’s masterful exploration of portraiture, where searching line and expressive repetition capture the psychological presence of the sitter with both immediacy and existential depth. Executed as a lithograph on velin d’Arches paper. 10 x 7.5 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. The impression reflects the exceptional quality associated with the Mourlot atelier, renowned for its collaborations with the most important artists of the twentieth century. Artwork Details: Artist: Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) Title: Annette (Annette), from Les Lithographies de L'Atelier Mourlot, Paris (The Lithographs of the Mourlot Workshop, Paris), 1965 Medium: Lithograph on velin d’Arches paper Dimensions: 10 x 7.5 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1965 Publisher: Redfern Gallery, London Printer: Mourlot Freres, Paris Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From Les Lithographies de L'Atelier Mourlot, Paris, published by Redfern Gallery, London, 1965 Notes: Excerpted from the album (translated from French), This album was published on the occasion of the exhibition, "The Mourlot Workshop" at The Redfern Gallery, 20, Cork Street London WI, December 7, 1965 to January 31, 1966. There were printed of this work M examples on velin d’Arches, and C examples on velin de Rives BFK, reserved for the artists, collaborators, and friends of the Imprimerie Mourlot and the Redfern Gallery. About the Publication: Les Lithographies de L'Atelier Mourlot, Paris (The Lithographs of the Mourlot Workshop, Paris), published in 1965 by the Redfern Gallery in London, stands as a landmark publication dedicated to one of the most important print ateliers of the twentieth century. Produced in conjunction with a major exhibition highlighting the achievements of the Mourlot workshop, the album celebrates the collaborative relationship between artists and master printers that defined modern lithography. Mourlot Freres, based in Paris, worked closely with leading figures of modern art, including Picasso, Miro, Chagall, Braque, and many others, providing the technical expertise necessary to translate their visions into lithographic form. The publication presents a curated selection of original lithographs that exemplify the range, innovation, and artistic excellence of the atelier, reflecting both the technical mastery of Mourlot and the creative diversity of the artists it supported. Printed with exceptional care and distributed through an international gallery context, the album represents a significant moment in the history of twentieth century printmaking, bridging the worlds of exhibition, publication, and artistic production. Today, it remains highly regarded by collectors and scholars as a definitive document of the Mourlot workshop’s central role in shaping modern graphic art. About the Artist: Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, and draughtsman whose hauntingly elongated figures and existential vision redefined modern art and made him one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, into an artistic family his father, Giovanni Giacometti, was a noted Post Impressionist he was immersed in art from an early age before studying in Geneva and moving to Paris in 1922, where he became part of the city’s avant garde alongside Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. In the 1920s and 1930s, Giacometti explored Cubism and Surrealism, creating symbolic and dreamlike sculptures such as Suspended Ball (1930–31) and The Palace at 4 A.M. (1932), which reflected the influence of Dali, Duchamp, and Man Ray. By the 1940s, he abandoned Surrealism to pursue a deeply personal exploration of the human condition, developing his iconic attenuated figures that embodied both fragility and resilience. His signature sculptures L’Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I), Femme debout, and Le Chariot expressed the isolation, endurance, and vulnerability of modern existence, echoing the existential philosophy of Jean Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Giacometti’s figures stripped of mass yet monumental in spirit symbolized humanity’s search for meaning in a postwar world, while his paintings and drawings portraits of his brother Diego, his wife Annette, and his friends captured the psychological depth of perception with trembling, repetitive lines that blurred the boundary between body and soul. His friendships with Picasso, Calder, Miro, and Kandinsky shaped his understanding of form, motion, and space, while his philosophical engagement with Duchamp and Man Ray deepened his inquiry into the nature of reality and perception. Working obsessively in his modest Montparnasse studio, Giacometti pursued art as an existential act destroying and rebuilding his figures in an endless search for truth. His influence on postwar art was immense, shaping the work of Henry Moore, Francis Bacon, Louise Bourgeois, Lucian Freud, and later contemporary sculptors such as Antony Gormley and Anselm Kiefer. His aesthetic also resonated beyond sculpture, influencing fashion, photography, and architecture through his vision of form, isolation, and proportion. Giacometti’s work is represented in major museum collections including MoMA, the Tate Modern, and the Centre Pompidou, and continues to inspire artists, collectors, and thinkers worldwide. Standing alongside Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, Giacometti remains a towering figure in modern art a sculptor philosopher who transformed the human form into a universal symbol of resilience and reflection. His highest auction record was achieved by L’Homme qui marche I (Walking Man I), which sold for 141.3 million USD at Sotheby’s, London, on February 3, 2010, reaffirming Alberto Giacometti’s enduring legacy as one of the most visionary, profound, and collectible artists in the history of modern art. Alberto Giacometti Annette...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture
Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture

Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture

By Igor Mitoraj

Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL

Petite Cuirasse Bronze Torso Sculpture Igot Mitoraj (Polish, 1944-2014) signed in the mold, from an unnumbered edition of 1500 bronze with gilt patina on lucite base. Dimensions of...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Bronze

La ronde de la jeunesse - The Circle of Youth
La ronde de la jeunesse - The Circle of Youth

La ronde de la jeunesse - The Circle of Youth

By Pablo Picasso

Located in Naples, Florida

Lithograph in colors on Arches archival quality paper Signed and numbered in pencil Printer: Mourlot, Paris With full margins, framed. This composition belongs to Pic...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Archival Paper

Duomo of Milan with Pesants- Oil Painting - 18th Century
Duomo of Milan with Pesants- Oil Painting - 18th Century

Duomo of Milan with Pesants- Oil Painting - 18th Century

Located in Roma, IT

Duomo of Milan with peasants is a modern artwork realized by an Italian Artist in 18th century. Mixed colored oil on canvas 40x33cm with frame included. Good conditions.

Category

18th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Saraswati, Figurative, Mythology by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"

Saraswati, Figurative, Mythology by Raja Ravi Verma "In Stock"

Located in Kolkata, West Bengal

Raja Ravi Varma - Laxmi, 19 x 14 inches Oleograph with embellishments, Circa (Unframed & Delivered) Raja Ravi Varma (29 April 1848 – 2 October 1906) was an Indian painter and artist...

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1890s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

1975 Modernist Vintage Original Figurative Oil Painting - What the Mirror Saw
1975 Modernist Vintage Original Figurative Oil Painting - What the Mirror Saw

1975 Modernist Vintage Original Figurative Oil Painting - What the Mirror Saw

Located in Bristol, GB

WHAT THE MIRROR SAW Size: 53 x 52.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A quietly arresting figurative painting that captures a fleeting, introspective moment seen through a reflecti...

Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues
Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues

Superb Original 1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Figurative Blues

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Figures in Blue French, circa 1950-1960 period indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 29 x 21.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good condi...

Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Factory #2/Yellow Shed

Factory #2/Yellow Shed

By Marina Stern

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This work is part of our exhibition Marina Stern Luminary, the first retrospective of the artist since 2007. Marina Stern was a multifaceted New York-based artist whose works ranged from Expressionism and Pop Art to the Neo Immaculate paintings and pastels for which she is best known. A native of Venice, Stern and her family fled in 1939 to escape Italy’s repressive racial laws. After living in England for several years, the family arrived in the United States in 1941. A bright and capable student, Stern graduated from New York’s Julia Richman High School at age 15 and soon enrolled in the Pratt Institute to pursue an interdisciplinary education in the arts. Despite majoring in advertising design, Stern favored her fine art courses. She graduated from Pratt in 1946 at age 18 and began working for advertising agencies. After a brief marriage which ended in divorce, Stern married her second husband, who encouraged the artist to study at the Art Students League of New York, under the renowned Japanese American modernist, Yasuo Kuniyoshi. In Fall 1953, Stern gave birth to her first child, Michael, as she continued to study at the Arts Students League. Later in the Spring of 1957, Stern gave birth to her daughter Nina, as she continued to balance motherhood with her fine art practice and commercial art and design work. Stern’s first significant exhibitions were in 1962 at the Waverly Gallery and the Osgood Gallery, both in New York, followed by inclusion of her work in the Bertha Schaefer Traveling Collage Show from 1963 to 1964. Stern made a splash in the avant-garde art world in 1964 when Time magazine reviewed a show at Amel Gallery which featured three of her audio-visual paintings. Time’s critic noted that Stern created the “cleverest noisemakers” in the exhibition. Time dubbed this work “Talkie Pop,” a label which Stern rejected. Following this recognition, Stern was selected for inclusion in The New American Realism at the Worcester Art Museum—a major showcase of leading artists, including Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Roy Lichtenstein, and Jasper Johns. After the Worcester exhibition, Stern began to shift away from her “talking” Pop paintings to mysterious, interior scenes with orange, blue or black walls with windows or doors rising above black and white floors, often depopulated, but sometimes with figures. One of these works, Seven Minus Twenty-One Equals Seven, entered the permanent collection of New York’s Museum of Modern Art in 1966. By 1969, Stern began to incorporate industrial images into these scenes, and in the early 1970s, Stern created her first Neo-Immaculate works of rural, and urban landscapes, which she described as her most satisfying work. Stern often depicted locations that she held close -- New York, New Jersey, Iowa (where her son attended college), Sharon, Connecticut (where her family spent weekends and vacations) and her native Venice, Italy. Stern’s success as a Neo Immaculate painter led to consistent New York gallery representation for over two decades, first with Lee Ault & Co and James Yu Gallery, and then Forum Gallery, where she had six solo shows. Stern completed a Neo-Immaculate mural commission for the Port Authority of New York, George Washington Bridge #1 and #2, followed by another commission from the NY Cityarts Public Art Program in 1976 for a mural on Mulberry Street. Stern also enjoyed solo exhibitions in Boston (Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery), Connecticut (Silo Gallery, the Hotchkiss School, J. Rosenthal Fine Arts Gallery, Tremaine Gallery, and Staib Gallery), Chicago (Michael Rosenfeld Gallery), and Santa Fe (Santa Fe East Gallery). Her work was included in group shows at over a dozen public institutions, including The National Academy of Design, The Staten Island Museum, Worcester Art Museum, the Oklahoma Art Center, and the Arkansas Art Center. The Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art hosted a retrospective of four decades of Stern’s work from January 19 to April 22, 2007, entitled Perception and the Cultural Environment: The Paintings of Marina...

Category

1990s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)
Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

Paul Klee, Perspective-Ghost, from 12 Watercolors, 1964 (after)

By Paul Klee

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph and pochoir after Paul Klee (1879–1940), titled Perspectiv-Spuk (Perspective-Ghost), from the folio Paul Klee, 12 aquarelles (Paul Klee, Twelve Watercolors)...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

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Find a wide variety of authentic Modern art available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add art created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, orange, purple and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Kevin Westenberg, Stuart Möller, Destro, and Christel Haag. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Paper and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Modern art, so small editions measuring 0.4 inches across are also available. Prices for art made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $33 and tops out at $390,000, while the average work sells for $1,912.